Brewers' Brawl

Brewers' Brawl

Flashback:
Date: July 26th
Time: After Brewers Win
Location: Brewers Clubhouse

Mood: Excited, and why not? 60-44, tied for first place in the NL Central with the lovable losers (who am I kidding, they are hated), the Chicago Cubs. After winning 8 in a row and 9 of 10, the Brew Crew were tied for 1st place with the highly touted Cubbies of Chicago. Poised from their acquisition of C.C. Sabathia, the (insert favorite supermodel here) of the trading season, the Brewers were jump-started, right into a tie for 1st place, and plans of climbing. With a 4 game series coming up next for the Crew, Hopes were high, but so was one other thing that didn't make the Brewers' faithful happy, their pitchers' ERA during that series.

After dropping 2 of 3 to the Houston Astros, the Brewers had a huge series coming up, possibly the biggest NL series in franchise history, a 4 game set, at home, against the one, the only, the hated, Sheeekago Cubs. With the (insert supermodel here) of the trading period on the mound in game one, the Brewers had high hopes, but these hopes were shot down by Ted Lilly and the Sheekago Offense in the 9th inning off of loser (whooops, forgot a "c") Salmon Terrible, losing 6-4. This score was pleasant compared to the other three games in the series, losing a combined 25-7 after the first game in the series.

After being embarrassed at home by Sheeekago, the Brew Crew went to Richmond (Whoops, that was the major league team!), excuse me, Atlanta to play the Braves. After taking the first two games (if you could call them that) in the series against an Atlanta Club (sorry, had to make them sound somewhat like a team), they got shutout by the Braves, with their "Ace", Bed Sheets, on the rubber.

The Brew Crew, now frustrated losing 8 of 11, headed to Cincinnati, to face a potent lineup starred by Ken Griffey Jr. (whoops, Traded), Will Farrell (what? thats Adam Dunn?) and some guy named Bruce, the Brewers looked to Rookie Manny Parra to shut them down. Unfortunately for the Brewers, it was 2 teammates shoving each other down, rather than shoving the other team's hopes down.

5 ft. 11 inches, 270 pounds as listed by MLB.com, sounds more like an offensive lineman then a baseball player, Prince Fielder faced off against Manny. No, not Manny Ramirez, the famous Green Monstah Operator, 6 ft. 3 inches, 208 pounds as listed by MLB.com, Manny Parra was his "counter-part." Top of the 7th inning, Manny Parra told that his night was over, he was being Pinch-Hit for, took off his batting gloves, set them down, while holding a conversation with one Prince. Apparently, the conversation continued down the dugout aisle, including an apparent throwing of a jacket by Manny, followed by a shove by Prince, and again, until teammates came to Manny's Rescue (come on now, be serious, we all know Prince would easily beat Manny in a fight, any day of the week). What exactly was said in Manny & Prince's conversation, we may never know, speculation of Fielder's Fielding lapse, or Manny's pitching problems, or potentially where Prince buys all of his half-price chocolate donuts. Well here it is, see for yourself.